Articles by Falko Timme

About Falko Timme

Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".

• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 5

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 12.04 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless OpenSUSE 12.1 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: suse, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 1

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless OpenSUSE 12.1 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless OpenSUSE 12.1 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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• Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, nginx, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

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• How To Take Screenshots Of VirtualBox VMs

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 2

  How To Take Screenshots Of VirtualBox VMs VirtualBox is a great virtualization solution, however if lacks one big feature: the ability to take screenshots of a virtual machine. Of course, you can use the host operating system's print screen feature, but this wil ltake a picture of the whole workspace, including window decorations, etc. which you will have to remove in your iage editing software which is a tedious task. This tutorial describes how you can create a little script that automatically takes a screenshot of a VirtualBox VM when you click on it; it makes use of the VirtualBox command line tool VBoxManage.

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• The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server • Comments: 19

  The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.

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• Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: storage, ubuntu • Comments: 0

  Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04 This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.04) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

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• Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (CentOS 6.2)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, centos, virtualbox • Comments: 2

  Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (CentOS 6.2) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on a CentOS 6.2 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless CentOS 6.2 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, centos, virtualbox • Comments: 4

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless CentOS 6.2 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless CentOS 6.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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• Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: security, backup, ftp, debian, storage • Comments: 3

  Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and duply to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider's remote backup server over FTP. duply is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).

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• Fedora 17 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, samba, storage • Comments: 6

  Fedora 17 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 17 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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